Wilson Martins (literary critic)

Wilson Martins ( born March 3, 1921 in São Paulo, † January 30, 2010 in Curitiba ) was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian whose contributions were regularly published in the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S. Paulo. He is also known for its extensive line História da Inteligência Brasileira.

Life

At the age of 16 years, Martin worked as a consultant for the Jornal Gazeta do Povo Official Journal and continued that work until 1945, when this ceased publication activities as daily newspaper published. In the 1940s, he was one of the first presenters of the radio station ' Radio Clube Paranaense. After a first legal examination, he moved as a result of music's literary studies in Paris, his interests completely to the literature.

Wilson graduated from the Universidade Federal do Paraná, lectured there and taught from 1965 to 1991 at New York University. In 2002 he received the Prêmio Machado de Assis for his life's work of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Work

  • Interpretac̜ões ( Ensaios de crítica ). S. Paulo, J. Olympio, Rio de Janeiro 1946.
  • A crítica Literaria no Brasil. F. Alves, Rio de Janeiro, 1952 ( 2nd edition 1983).
  • To Brasil diferente, ensaio sobre Fenómenos de aculturação no Paraná. Editora Anhembi, São Paulo, 1955.
  • A palavra escrita: história do livro because impresa, e biblioteca there. Com to capitula referente à propiedade Literaria e, apêndice as Convenções de Berna, de Washington e Universal, sobre os Direitos autorais. Editora Anhembi, São Paulo 1957.
  • O modernismo, 1916-1945. Cultrix Editora, São Paulo 1965 5 ª ed. 1977 - Translation: Jack Tomlins (1971 ), The modernist idea: a critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-0293-7
  • Teatro brasileiro Contemporâneo. Appleton - Century- Crofts, New York 1966.
  • História da Inteligência Brasileira. 7 vols, Editora Cultrix, São Paulo from 1976 to 1979.
  • A Crítica Literaria no Brasil. 2 vols
  • Pontos de vista: crítica Literaria. T.A. Queiroz, São Paulo 1991.
  • A invenção do Paraná: estudo sobre a Presidencia Zacarias de Góes e Vasconcelllos. Imprensa Oficial do Estado do Parana, Curitiba, Parana 1999.
  • A idéia modern fashionista. Academia Brasileira de Letras, Topbooks, Rio de Janeiro 2002.
  • O ano literario: 2000-2001. Topbooks, Rio de Janeiro 2005.

Awards and honors

  • O.J.: Academia Brasileira de Letras
  • 2002: Prêmio Machado de Assis
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